Cool ... Comments:
1) I don't see the widget container and ECMAScript engine. If we're using
HTML for display rendering, the architecture needs to include explicit
considerations for a few core technologies.
2) The use of D-Bus creates an internal communication model that is
different than the external. Seems like some creative API mapping could
make the two types of communication similar.
3) Why is there a browser on your server side picture?
Paul
Paul A. Lambert
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: svhmpc-bounces at telefono.revejo.org [mailto:svhmpc-
>bounces at telefono.revejo.org] On Behalf Of Matthew S. Hamrick
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 4:07 PM
> To: SVHMPC; OpenMoko Community List
> Subject: Re: [SVHMPC] 0K Re: OpenMoko light web server
>> I think some of the context didn't get forwarded to one or both
> lists. Here's a simple graphical overview of the "003 Software
> Architecture." (003 is the next bit of software I'll be working on
> for the myPhone.)
>> Basically what you've got going here is that an "application" is
> simply a collection of related objects in an object graph. Note they
> may (or may not) all be in the same process space. When an object
> wants to talk to another object in it's own process space, it simply
> accesses it using features provided by the language or run-time
> library. When it wants to access an object outside of it's address
> space, it uses something like DBUS. But if you like OpenBinder or
> CORBA, erase DBUS and write in the object middle ware of your choice.
> (Extra points if you use a pointer in a single-address-space
> operating-system.)
>> When you want to provide a service to an "off device" machine (like a
> server or a desktop device) you have an interface that maps the
> object graph to an XML document. Queries are made to the device using
> HTTP GET's where the path portion of the URI is an XPath
> specification. Deletions use HTTP Deletes. Additions to collections
> use POSTs with the path portion of the URI being an XPath
> specification and the contents being the XML that represents an
> object that modifies the state of the object graph.
>> So if you queried this interface directly from your browser, you
> would get an XML document back. So, for off device access, you might
> want to have a page served off a server somewhere that then does
> XMLHttpRequest() to the mobile device. Or, you could have the XML
> interface on the device reference an xsl stylesheet somewhere.
>> Note that I'm totally ignoring security in this document, but rest
> assured I am thinking about various security concepts including TLS,
> message oriented security over HTTP and coarse or fine-grained access
> control to individual objects in the object graph based on user,
> network or application credentials.
>> -Cheers